PMID: 8588433Nov 1, 1995Paper

Legal liability of subordinate physicians, legal liability for management responsibility from the jurisprudence viewpoint

Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung
W Weissauer

Abstract

Within the bounds of the hospitalization contract and the department's work, the hospital management is liable for compensation for its own as well as its staff's culpable faults (liability of the accomplices) by contract and by offense. For the same damage, subordinate and senior physicians are liable by offense for malpractice and organization faults. To the outside, the hospital management and the medical staff are common debtors. To the inside, the hospital management bears the consequences by itself in case of a light negligence of a staff member, the damage is divided for medium negligence, and the staff member has to bear it alone after severe negligence. Beside the hospital, the physician with an authorization for billing is the contract partner of the patient with private treatment (physician side-contract). In a general practitioner hospital, the contract partner of the patient is only the general practitioner (divided hospitalization contract) and for work with outside-patients as a sideline the physician with an authorization for billing. Usually, the hospital management insures itself and all staff members for claims on compensation occurring during hospital tasks.

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